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WELL-GROOMED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does well-groomed mean?
• WELL-GROOMED (adjective)
The adjective WELL-GROOMED has 2 senses:
1. having tasteful clothing and being scrupulously neat
2. having your hair neatly brushed and combed
Familiarity information: WELL-GROOMED used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having tasteful clothing and being scrupulously neat
Synonyms:
well-dressed; well-groomed
Similar:
groomed (neat and smart in appearance; well cared for)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having your hair neatly brushed and combed
Similar:
groomed (neat and smart in appearance; well cared for)
Context examples
Foolishly, in the past, he had conceived that all well-groomed persons above the working class were persons with power of intellect and vigor of beauty.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of refinement and delicacy in his bearing.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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